Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Dec. 1

11/30/10 By Matt Brunson DESPICABLE ME When James Stewart offers to lasso the moon for Donna Reed in Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life, it's purely a romantic gesture. When Gru (Steve Carell), the star of the 3-D opus Despicable Me, plots to shrink the moon to a size small enough so that he can make off with it, it's clearly to show that he's the baddest dude around. After all, if a ...

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Harry Deitz.: Wonderful life: Imagining a world without highlights the good newspapers do

12/11/10 It's a wonderful life. We're reminded of that every year at this time, when it's hard to miss a showing of the classic film of that title, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.

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O'Donnell withdraws from 8th District race

03/17/11 Thursday brought the first major casualty of the 2011 campaign for City Council with the withdrawal of Donna Gentile O'Donnell to replace councilwoman Donna Reed Miller in the 8th District.

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